Baling-press.



No. 707,802. PatentedwAug. 26, I902.

J. P. SHAW.

BALING PRESS.

(Application filed. Feb. 26, 1901.)

(No Model.)

TTED STATES I PATENT OFFIC JOHN I. SHAW, OF ABERDEEN, MISSISSIPPI.

BALlNG-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 707,802, dated August 26, 1902.

Application filed February 26, 1901. Serial No. 48,982. (No model.)

To all whont it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN P. SHAW, a citizen of the United States, residing at Aberdeen, in the county of Monroe and State of Mississippi, have invented new and useful Improvements in Baling-Presses, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hand-operated haybaling presses; and the object of the same is to construct a press of this character which will be light and portable and at the same time simple in construction and eflicient in operation.

The novel construction designed by mein carrying out my invention is fully described in this specification and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective of my press. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same.

Like characters of reference designate like parts in the different views of the drawings.

The numeral 1 designates the box of my press, which has ends 2, vertically slotted at 3. Mounted to slide in the slots 3 are arms 4, which are secured to a follower 6. Said arms project from the slots and are provided with bearings a a. a

Fig.

To provide means for elevating the follower.

upper ends on the shafts 7, which serve as drums to wind the rope on.

The sides of the box 1 are made in sections, the lower sections 18 being rigidly fixed, while the upper sections 14 are hinged at their bottoms at 14 thereby forming doors, which serve in gaining access to the bale. These doors are secured by means of arms 15, which serve as catches. These arms are The outer formed by bending the ends of a pair of shafts 16 at right angles, which shafts are journaled in boxes 17, supported on the ends 2, and stops 18 are provided to prevent their longitudinal displacement. I may modify my construction to operate both of these shafts 16 in unison to release the doors simultaneously. The top 19 of my press is mounted to slide in guides formed by grooves 20, cut in the ends 2. This construction enables the top to be removed in filling the press. Grooves 21 are also cut in the top 19, ends 2, and in the bottom 6 to enable ropes or wires to be inserted for binding the bale.

The operation of my press is as follows: The follower 6 is lowered, the top 19 removed, the doors 13 let down, and the lower portion of the press then filled with hay. The doors are then raised and secured by means of the catches or arms 15 and the top portion then filled with hay. The top 19 is then slid into the grooves 20 and power applied to the cranks to raise the follower. The bottom is raised up to the end of the slots 3, when the bale will be compressed sufficiently. The door-s are next opened and ropes put around the bale in the usual manner, after which the bale is removed by first slacking off the drums or shafts, removing the top, and then rolling it out.

To provide means for operating both sides of my winding mechanism in unison, a shaft 22 is journaled in boxes 23, supported on the top of the box. This shaft 22 is fitted with gears 24:, keyed thereon, which gears mesh with gears 25, keyed on the shafts 7.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, iS

In a baling-press, the combination with the casing having a sliding top and hinged side doors and the ends of the casing having vertically-elongated slots therein; of a follower having arms projecting through said slots, a drive-shaft mounted on top of the casing having gear-wheels on opposite ends, brackets secured to the opposite ends of the casing having stub-shafts provided with drumsjournaled therein and in the ends of the casing,

said stub-shafts having on their outer ends I upward toward the top of the press, substangear-wheels meshing with the gear-wheels on tially as specified.

the drive-shaft, the inner ends of said stub- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set shafts beingprovided with ratchet-wheels 00 my hand in presence of two subscribing wit- 5 acting with suitably-arranged pawls, and nesses.

ropes secured to the drums and the bearin s of the projecting arms of the follower, and JOHN the cranks secured to the stub-shafts to 1'0- Witnesses:

tate the same so as to wind the ropes on the E. F. POE,

1o drums thereby moving the follower vertically G. A. HOBBS. 

